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Aberdeen offers alternative investment strategies and private capital solutions across private equity, property multi-manager, real assets and hedge funds. Our strategies are actively managed by experienced investment teams located in the market or region in which they invest, delivering local insight backed by our global knowledge. We champion original thinking and base decisions on proprietary research and analysis.

Aberdeen’s alternative investment strategies provide investors with an expanded opportunity set that isn’t easily found in the traditional public markets. These strategies typically have low correlations to traditional investments such as long-only equities and fixed income adding the potential benefit of greater portfolio diversification. This can help promote consistent growth with the potential for lower volatility across various stages of market cycles.

We think the private equity market continues to be attractive for investors and over the longer term is likely to maintain its outperformance over more traditional asset classes. We continue to believe there is significant opportunity for private equity to enhance value through effective operational and financial change, benefitting both portfolio companies and investors in the asset class.

Our Private Equity investment strategies take an experienced region-specific approach and construct portfolios with specialization in global mid-markets, seeking to capitalize on opportunities in what we believe are the least efficient segments of the private equity market. Our Venture Capital team recognized the shifting venture manager landscape early and retooled its portfolio construction to provide the access to what we believe is the best of today’s up and coming managers.

The combined team of over 40 investment professionals was formed through the merging of Aberdeen’s original private equity team, the Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Limited private equity team, Aberdeen SVG and FLAG Capital Management, LLC (“FLAG”).

Within real assets we seek to invest globally with managers who have particular asset-type and operational expertise across the following natural resources sub-asset classes: energy (including upstream and midstream oil and gas, power, and infrastructure assets), mining and minerals, timber, and agriculture. These managers tend to be difficult to find, present unique challenges in diligence and/or are hard to access, rendering the strategy ideal for an outsourced solution.

Aberdeen’s property multi-manager strategies are actively managed portfolios comprised of both emerging and established managers. We seek to invest with managers who add property level value, have micro-market expertise, and are less reliant on capital markets and global real estate trends. We have a global team with offices in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific and we manage fund of funds, bespoke solutions as well as separate account mandates and across strategies, from core to opportunistic. We have made more than 160 investments and we are today invested in just over 100 funds across the globe (as of March 31, 2016).

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Aberdeen Asset Management (“AAM”) is the marketing name in Canada for the following affiliated entities: Aberdeen Asset Management Inc., Aberdeen Fund Distributors, LLC, Aberdeen Asset Management Canada Limited and Aberdeen Capital Management, LLC. Aberdeen Asset Management Inc. is registered as a Portfolio Manager in the Canadian provinces of Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia and as an Investment Fund Manager in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador. Aberdeen Asset Management Canada Limited is registered as a Portfolio Manager in the province of Ontario. Aberdeen Fund Distributors, LLC, operates as an Exempt Market Dealer in all provinces and territories of Canada. Aberdeen Fund Distributors, LLC, Aberdeen Asset Management Canada Limited and Aberdeen Capital Management, LLC, are wholly owned subsidiaries of Aberdeen Asset Management Inc. Aberdeen Asset Management Inc. is wholly owned by Aberdeen Asset Management PLC.

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